#1978

Thanks for the comments! I suspected this collection was nothing special.

I am now reading The three body problem and I want to read some N.K. Jemisin next.
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#1979

I just re-read William Gibson’s Neuromancer in about 24 hours (along with a full 8 hour workday and a normal amount of sleep).

Thinking about maybe going with a cyberpunk theme for my next album, even though EBM/industrial or synthwave are usually the genres associated with cyberpunk :slight_smile:

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#1980

I love Camus the philosopher but halfway through The Plague I put it down for good.

It’s just horribly boring. I kept holding out for anything to happen but at the end of the day it’s just an account of some mildly eccentric townspeople and a doctor who lives with his mom being curt and terse while the plague happens in the background.

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#1981

heh, that’s a pretty apt description.

funnily enough, i finished the book during hot baths as the pandemic was getting underway (end of feb/beginning of march). g’times.

#1982

Besides studying shorter research papers (today Judith Butler 2001, Bruno Latour 1990, Tanja Bogusz 2018) I’m reading Donna Haraway’s Staying With the Trouble. Making kin in the Chthulucene (2016) with a reading group of colleagues and have been trying to start Wardrip-Fruin’s Expressive Programming. Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies (2009) alongside it…

…but…

…Karen Collins’ Studying Sound. A Theory and Practice of Sound Design (2020) just arrived today via local bookshop :package: and I’m pretty excited about it because it has exercises in it :rabbit:

Edit: the exercises are absolutely phenomenal (literally, about the phenomenon of sound)

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#1983

20 characters of orbital dub music also

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#1984

Currently reading this. Simultaneously educating and scaring myself. Pretty sure the surveillance capitalists haven’t touched our norns yet, some behaviour stays sacred :pray:

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#1985

Staying with the Trouble was incredibly impactful on me and my art. Now I think of dogs and Modular’s as companion species!

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#1986

A friend has just published his first book. I’m only on Chapter 2, nice bit of escapism so dar. Paperback or kindle copies are out now. If you like fantasy writing have a look.

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#1987

william gibson is reading from agency in 15 minutes here: https://youtu.be/pS-Lj-YBnv8

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#1988

Just arrived …

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#1989

Staying with the Trouble was huge for me. I’m in the middle of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet – similar themes, maybe more bio focused.

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#1990

Bit late to the post-Booker party, but I just finished Bernadine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other. Thoroughly enjoyable read.

#1991

That sounds great. I’m gong to order a copy.

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#1992

I have just finished “The three body problem” first book from Liu Cixin. It was a good read, but I expected more based in all the good reports. There were good parts in it, no doubt, but … What do you think of the second and third books?

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#1993

Keep going. Each sequel further complicates what came before. I felt the same way as you after the first but by the end, my head was spinning.

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#1994

I didn’t like the first book all that much, either, but I think the series got significantly better with each book. If you liked the general direction of the book and hard sci-fi, it’s definitely worth reading on.

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#1995

I liked the first one the most and found it really disappointing by the third book so obviously ymmv!

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#1996

For me, the more I read, the more I adjusted to the style and the more I enjoyed subsequent books. Once I got used to his manner of storytelling, it flowed a lot better. As far as story goes, I think the second book is my favorite.

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#1997

current books in my rotation:

The Social Photo by Nathan Jurgenson
Wretched of the Screen by Hito Steyerl
Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han

all of which are absurdly prescient for this pandemic-surveillance-capitalism environment we’re in, i highly recommend!

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